Human-AI friendship: Rejecting the appropriate sentimentality criterion

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Human-AI friendship: Rejecting the appropriate sentimentality criterion

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University of Waikato

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Most traditional philosophical views of friendship deny the possibility of human-AI friendship because they consider feeling love or something similar towards the other to be a requirement for genuine friendship. We call this the appropriate sentimentality criterion for friendship. Coupled with the claim that AI cannot and will not ever be able to feel what a friend should feel, the appropriate sentimentality criterion is the key to an argument that genuine human-AI friendship will never be p...

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2022

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Weijers, Dan M. / Munn, Nicholas

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15372

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AI / Appropriate sentimentality criterion / Friendship / Human-AI friendship / Sentimentality

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